Portrait of a Psychologist Flashcards
Reinforcement can change the way people behave or make people/animals repeat behavior
B.F. Skinner
People’s actions are influenced by hidden impulses, unconscious motives, and internal conflicts
Sigmund Freud
In two categories of conscious experience (objective sensations and subjective feelings)
Wilhem Wundt
Adaptive behavior is learned and maintained because it is successful
William James
Psychology should be limited to observable and measurable events and behavior
John B. Watson
The context in which something occurs effects the way we perceive it
The Gestalt School
segregation caused negative effects on African American children
Kenneth Calrk
Thought that learning was active and purposeful not mechanical
The Gestalt School
Structuralist
Wilhem Wundt
Functionalist
William James
Behavioralist
John B. Watson
Associated with Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Quoted by the supreme court in Brown vs. Board of Education
Kenneth Calrk
Focused on Consultation with patients
Sigmund Freud